Improved bed-bottom



@with taies @anni @Hire VA 'sa T 0M B,- or L YioiN s, N E WH Y o n K. 'Leners Patent No.- 66,057, daad .me 25, 1867.

" IMPnovtzD BED-BOTTOM.

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TO ALL TO WOM IT MAY CONCERN':

Be it known that I,ASA. M. TOMB, of'LyouS, Wayne county, New York, now temporarily dwelling in Erie, Pennsylvania,.have invented a new and useful improvement upon the buckle or instrument commonly used to `f'asterrthe slats on Bed-Bottoms; and I do hereby decla-re'that the 'following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, in which- I' i Figure I isa perspective view of' a wooden slat, fastened to the buckle `or instrument for holding the same together, with alike view of the buckle 4or fastening; also a similarA view of the rubber or spring, 'one end ef which is fastened to the said'buckle, and the other to a clasp attached to a section of the bed-rail..

, Figure II, another perspective view of the buckle and slat,` inverted,"and exhibiting the pin o through the slat'g' also thetwc hooks on the outer ends ofthe side bars of said buckle. Figure III, the rubber or spring, and clasp, fastened to a section of the bed, together with a heavy wire passing through the .end of the A'rubber doubled, or attached to the spring, exhibiting the ends of-l the wire which rest in the two hooks of the buckle, as seen in Fig. II.

Figure IV ,-a viewY of the buckle alone, as'scen in II, attached tothc slat, and exhibiting the pin or rib onthe centre or. under side of the cross-bar of the buckle; and also further exhibiting the hooks on the outer ends of the sideibars of the buckle.

Figure V, a view of the. buckle as seen in Fig. No`.-I, showing the manner in which tbe endl of the slat, as seen in Fig. I, may be fastened thereto. i

Figure VI, a portion o f the buckle, showing the4 construction of the hook a, which is fastened or hooked intothe slat. i

To'enable others skilled-in theart to make use of my improvement, I will briefly describe its construction and operation.

I take spruce or other like elastic timber, cut into strips about two and av half inches wide, and half an inch thick, and of the necessary length, when fastened to the buckle and rubber springs, to extend from the head to the foot of the bed. These strips, or elastic wood, .I call slats At 'the proper distance from the ends -of said slats I bore gmlet holes tcadmit the hook in the buckle, described in the drawings marked II and VI. I place a wire through the rubber at the end thereof, and x the ends of the wire in the hook-heads of the buckle, which wire is seen in III. And with the end ofthe Slat placed in the buckle, as shown in Fig'. II, and the rubber fastened to the bed-rail, as' shown in Fig. III, I invert'the Slat thus fastened, to the buckle,-and

afix the hooked ends thereof, as shown in Fig. II, into the ends ofthe wire, as lshown in Fig. III, thus fasten-A ing the slat to the'rubber as attached tothe bed-rail, asit appears'inFig. I, and 'making a simple, cheap, and easy fastening or connection of the buckleand slat to the spring which is fastened to the head and foot of the bed, the whole .being so constructed and attached thatV when bent by use, :achamber-maid can easily detach the slats'and turn them. To make a complete bed-bottom, I use a dozen. or more slats fastened as above described.

What I claim as my invention, is- 1.Y The reversible buckle-V, furnished with hookfheads at the ends of each bar, and with the hook a forV securing on either side -of the rail as described. i

l 2. I claim the hollow fastening to thebed-rail, or to a piece of wood attached to the bed-rail, as shown at igQIIL in combination with the reversible buckle and pin.

ASA M. TOMB. Witnesses :l

' L. W. MCoY, A. HOFFMAN. 

